Hyperbaric Chamber Oxygen Therapy
In this treatment you enter a Hyperbaric chamber to breathe in pure oxygen in air pressure levels 1.5 to 3 times higher than average. Intended to fill the blood with enough oxygen to repair tissues and restore normal body function.
When you take a dive in a hyperbaric chamber the pressure allows the large levels of oxygen to reach deep into the tissues of the body. This extra oxygen supply can help heal wounds and damaged tissue more quickly, and heal your body from a cellular level. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy enhances the body’s natural healing ability by providing increased oxygenated blood flow to the damaged tissues.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used to speed up healing of carbon monoxide poisoning, gangrene, wounds that won’t heal, and infections in which tissues are starved for oxygen.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy has been approved for more than a dozen conditions including:
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Cyanide poisoning
- Crush injuries
- Gas gangrene (a form of gangrene in which gas collects in tissues)
- Decompression sickness
- Acute or traumatic reduced blood flow in the arteries
- Compromised skin grafts and flaps
- Infection in a bone (osteomyelitis) that doesn't respond to other treatment
- Delayed radiation injury
- Flesh-eating disease (necrotizing soft tissue infection)
- Air or gas bubble trapped in a blood vessel (air or gas embolism)
- Chronic infection called actinomycosis
- Diabetic wounds that are not healing properly
